Gustav Metzger

Quotes

• “Auto-destructive art is conceived as a desperate last-minute subversive political weapon used by artists. It is an attack on the Capitalist system and the production of war materials. It is committed to nuclear disarmament and people's struggle.”
• “Facing up to the Nazis and the powers of the Nazi state coloured my life as an artist.”
• “At the beginning I was confronted with a choice: move into art or revolutionary politics,... I took the path of art at the age of 18.... I could see this possibility of using the ideas of social change within art.”
• “I don't want my image to appear in the mass media, since it would detract from the project.”
• “Atomic physics, was the worst thing that happened in the 20th century.”

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